| Team |
Winners |
Runners-up |
Third place |
Fourth place |
Total |
 Egypt |
7 (1957, 19591, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010) |
3 (19621, 2017, 2021) |
3 (19631, 19701, 1974) |
3 (1976, 1980, 1984) |
16 |
 Cameroon |
5 (1984, 1988, 2000, 2002, 2017) |
2 (1986, 2008) |
2 (1972, 2021) |
1 (1992) |
10 |
 Ghana |
4 (1963, 1965, 1978, 1982) |
5 (1968, 1970, 1992, 2010, 2015) |
1 (2008) |
4 (1996, 2012, 2013, 2017) |
14 |
 Nigeria |
3 (1980, 1994, 2013) |
4 (1984, 1988, 1990, 2000) |
8 (1976, 1978, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2019) |
— |
15 |
 Ivory Coast |
2 (1992, 2015) |
2 (2006, 2012) |
4 (1965, 1968, 1986, 1994) |
2 (1970, 2008) |
10 |
 Algeria |
2 (1990, 2019) |
1 (1980) |
2 (1984, 1988) |
2 (1982, 2010) |
7 |
 DR Congo |
2 (19682, 19743) |
— |
2 (1998, 2015) |
1 (19723) |
5 |
 Zambia |
1 (2012) |
2 (1974, 1994) |
3 (1982, 1990, 1996) |
— |
6 |
 Tunisia |
1 (2004) |
2 (1965, 1996) |
1 (1962) |
3 (1978, 2000, 2019) |
7 |
 Sudan |
1 (1970) |
2 (1959, 1963) |
1 (1957) |
— |
4 |
 Senegal |
1 (2021) |
2 (2002, 2019) |
— |
3 (1965, 1990, 2006) |
6 |
 Ethiopia |
1 (1962) |
1 (1957) |
1 (1959) |
2 (1963, 1968) |
5 |
 Morocco |
1 (1976) |
1 (2004) |
1 (1980) |
2 (1986, 1988) |
5 |
 South Africa |
1 (1996) |
1 (1998) |
1 (2000) |
— |
3 |
 Congo |
1 (1972) |
— |
— |
1 (1974) |
2 |
 Mali |
— |
1 (1972) |
2 (2012, 2013) |
3 (1994, 2002, 2004) |
6 |
 Burkina Faso |
— |
1 (2013) |
1 (2017) |
2 (1998, 2021) |
4 |
 Uganda |
— |
1 (1978) |
— |
1 (1962) |
2 |
 Guinea |
— |
1 (1976) |
— |
— |
1 |
 Libya |
— |
1 (1982) |
— |
— |
1 |
 Equatorial Guinea |
— |
— |
— |
1 (2015) |
1 |
